Date
8-9-2024
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Chair
W. Ryan Steenburg
Keywords
Modern-day idols, idol worship, worship, idolatry, idols
Disciplines
Christianity | Liturgy and Worship
Recommended Citation
Ivy, Franzetta L., "Modern-Day Idol Worship at Life Changers Church: How It Was Identified and Replaced with True Worship Of God" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 5884.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5884
Abstract
This DMIN project ventures to establish and further a ministry design rooted in God’s Word that instructs, equips, and enhances Christian lives. The project offers a structure by which God’s Word can renew and transform people’s minds. The ten-week project intervention utilized a weekly Bible class, interviews, questionnaires, and observations to collect information from seven participants at Life Changers Church. The purpose was to examine the problem of modern-day idol worship and foster motivation, commitment, and reverence for God by applying spiritual awareness through teaching from an intentionally designed worship handbook. This action-based research project endeavored to link the application gap in modern-day idol worship research by observing the progress and results of participants striving to become committed worshipers who revere God. The research results demonstrate usefulness to the investigator while considering applying the concepts within this research. The project disclosed that the congregant-pastor partnership combined with congregant-focused mind-renewing modes of worship that address idolatry and encourage Christians to become committed worshipers who revere God. The results indicate that pastors can impact and positively affect congregants by helping them recognize the modern-day distracting idols so they can combat and replace them with true worship of God.
